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<DIV id=slugline jQuery1384365687853="4"><CITE><ABBR class=slug-jnl-abbrev
title=Science>Science</ABBR><SPAN class=slug-pub-date itemprop="datePublished">
1 November 2013: </SPAN><BR><SPAN class=slug-vol>Vol. 342 </SPAN><SPAN
class=slug-issue>no. 6158 </SPAN><SPAN class=slug-pages>pp. 617-621
</SPAN><BR>DOI: <SPAN class=slug-doi
title=10.1126/science.1240837>10.1126/science.1240837 </SPAN></CITE></DIV>
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<DIV id=article-title-1 class="article abstract-view " jQuery1384365687853="6"
itemprop="headline" sizset="0" sizcache="1"><FONT size=5><STRONG>Pacific Ocean
Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemprop="author"
sizset="0" sizcache="0"><SPAN class=name itemprop="name"><A class=name-search
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Yair+Rosenthal&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Yair
Rosenthal</A></SPAN><A id=xref-aff-1-1 class=xref-aff
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/617.abstract#aff-1"
jQuery1384365687853="20"><SUP>1</SUP></A><SPAN class=xref-sep>,</SPAN><A
id=xref-corresp-1-1 class=xref-corresp
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/617.abstract#corresp-1">*</A>,
<SPAN class=name itemprop="name"><A class=name-search
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Braddock+K.+Linsley&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Braddock
K. Linsley</A></SPAN><A id=xref-aff-2-1 class=xref-aff
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/617.abstract#aff-2"
jQuery1384365687853="21"><SUP>2</SUP></A>, <SPAN class=name><A class=name-search
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Delia+W.+Oppo&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Delia
W. Oppo</A></SPAN><A id=xref-aff-3-1 class=xref-aff
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/617.abstract#aff-3"
jQuery1384365687853="22"><SUP>3</SUP></A></DIV>
<DIV class=affiliation-list-reveal><SUP>1</SUP>Institute for Marine and Coastal
Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, 71
Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. <SUP>2</SUP>Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA.
<SUP>3</SUP>Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. <A class=rev-xref
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/617.abstract#xref-corresp-1-1">↵</A><SPAN
class=corresp-label>*</SPAN>Corresponding author. E-mail: <A
href="mailto:rosentha@imcs.rutgers.edu">rosentha@imcs.rutgers.edu</A></DIV>
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href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/tab-abstract"
jQuery1384365687853="31">Abstract</A></DIV>
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href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/tab-editor-summary"
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<DIV id=p-3 class="panes tab-boxed-content">Observed increases in ocean heat
content (OHC) and temperature are robust indicators of global warming during the
past several decades. We used high-resolution proxy records from sediment cores
to extend these observations in the Pacific 10,000 years beyond the instrumental
record. We show that water masses linked to North Pacific and Antarctic
intermediate waters were warmer by 2.1 ± 0.4°C and 1.5 ± 0.4°C, respectively,
during the middle Holocene Thermal Maximum than over the past century. Both
water masses were ~0.9°C warmer during the Medieval Warm period than during the
Little Ice Age and ~0.65° warmer than in recent decades. Although documented
changes in global surface temperatures during the Holocene and Common era are
relatively small, the concomitant changes in OHC are large.
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